Victim identified as Aberdeen police K-9 Officer Charles Armetta

A man who fell to his death from Interstate 95 was an off-duty police officer in Harford County, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.

Maryland Transportation Authority police Sgt. Kirk Perez told 11 News that Charles Nelson Armetta, 29, of Joppa, was a K-9 officer for the Aberdeen Police Department. He had been with the department since 2007.

Perez said the officer was a passenger aboard a chartered bus that stopped on the shoulder of northbound I-95 near the Russell Street exit in downtown Baltimore at about 3:15 a.m. Saturday.

At some point, Armetta got out of the vehicle and somehow ended up falling off of the ramp, plunging 47 feet to his death in a wooded area.

"He should really be remembered as a really good guy," said Joy Scott, a neighbor.

Scott told 11 News reporter Nadia Ramdass that she lived next door to Armetta's family for almost two years before the family moved out a few weeks ago.

"My four children adored the officer. They called him 'Mr. Charles,'" Scott said. "He was a great police officer from what I can tell. A great, great neighbor. There are other people in this neighborhood who are upset with the news."

Armetta is survived by a wife and a daughter who, according to Aberdeen police, turns 1 on Monday.

About 10 or 11 family members and friends were aboard the bus, MdTA police said.